Just wondering. When you install a PCI card having multiple ports, depending on the location within the controller, the ports are in the order from left to right or from right to left. Is there an easy way which of both is the right one. Sometimes ports are numbered, sometimes not.... That makes it hard not to make mistakes when cabling the solution.... I know in the GUI there is a view where you can find it. But that is when installation is done. On the other hande, for a metrocluster the iwarp card is not visible this way... so the challenge is there... ... View more

Hi,   I need advice on a new FAS to buy. We currently have a FAS 2720 configured as follows   4x960GB + 8x4TB + 3xDS212C 12x4TB   with two aggregates of about 50TB each and Flash Pool.   We use it to store customer emails, these are many small files accessed rarely but with a lot of use of metadata (for this reason Flash Pool helps us a lot), the IOPS at peak times reach 20,000 in total.   We need a second FAS and the options we are evaluating are these:   FAS2820A 4x960GB + 8x10TB + 4xDS212C 12x10TB: configuration with 10TB disks and an extra DS, I would have much more space but I think I would not be able to use it due to the IOPS limit. I did some simulations and the higher cost is only worth it if I can occupy more than double the space and therefore do double the IOPS of the current FAS 2720. FAS2820A 4x960GB + 8x4TB + 4xDS212C 12x4TB: configuration with an extra DS but would it be safe to continue doing RAID-DP with this number of disks? I would like to continue having 2 aggregates. FAS2820A 4x960GB + 8x4TB + 3xDS212C 12x4TB: configuration similar to the one we already have   I did some simulations with Fusion to estimate the number of IOPS I could reach but according to Fusion it is not even possible to do the IOPS that I actually do now, so my workload is not well simulated.   I would like to have your advice. Thanks ... View more

Hello I have a device that belongs to ONTAP 8.2.5. I can't activate my existing licenses after a device reset. The source of my problem is that I have a 7-character license. But my device's version supports it based on 28 characters. My current licenses are due to the fact that they are compatible with the old version. Error alert I'm encountering hostname> license add XXXXXXX license add: invalid license key "XXXXXXX", license keys must be 28 or 42 letters in length. I get a warning in the form of. Does anyone have the 8.0 / 8.1. 7-Mode firmware file for Netapp FAS-2240? If you have it, can you share it with me. Thank you very much in advance for your support and suggestions. ... View more

Hello,   I've researched this issue about every way I know how, but have not had much luck.  Anyway, we are a Splunk shop and we've got quite a bit of our NetApp (7mode and ONTAP) event traffic getting sent to Splunk.  That said, we've identified a "gap" in our ONTAP approach where we have the following events going to Splunk:   security.invalid.login (ALERT) - this captures failed attempts to login to the system with a valid user credential sshd.auth.loginDenied (NOTICE) - this captures failed attempts to login with invalid credentials (i.e. security scans or just a fat-fingered userID)   We can issue "security audit log show" commands to see successful authentications/connections, but we can't seem to figure out a way of getting these captured in an event filter rule such that we can have all successful and unsuccessful logon attempts logged centrally.  A sort of goofy way to do this might be to issue a "cluster log-forwarding create" command and dump the command-history.log to Splunk, but that would capture a lot of garbage we just don't care about and make it harder to filter for authentication-related events.   So, has anybody figured out a clean way of sending all authentication events to an EMS - failures and success?  I'd rather not have to cron a separate process to mine the audit.log files of all the nodes/etc...   Thanks in advance! Chris ... View more

Can we still quote this model and when is it EOL? ... View more